Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha - Vol. 11 Ch. 53 - Collision

[Grikath]

I find that fortresses, castles, defensive walls, and other similar structures tend to have the wrong proportions. The battlements in particular tend to be too small.

This particular "castle-shaped object" is an obvious stock-is-easy example, but castles and fortresses never look like what people "expect" of them.
Especially since most surviving examples have been extensively rebuilt and remodelled over the centuries, to deal with that little thing called "gunpowder".

Medieval castle walls generally weren't all that thick, and quite a lot of elements in them were made of wood. If they weren't entirely wood to begin with.
Nor were they all that high. They didn't need to be. That ditch right in front of them made life troublesome enough to deal with for any but the most determined unfriendlies.
If there's any near where peeps live.. There's some rebuilt motte-and-bailey type forts/castles in Eu'rp, or else look up and build a "pallet-fort" when you've got time/room and try storming that with just sword/spear/axe/arrows.

Amazingly sturdy things, and an absolute biatch to approach, let alone take over, if manned by surprisingly few determined defenders.
There's a reason sieges were the norm... MUCH easier, and far less dangerous to simply make sure peeps don't get out compared to trying to get in. Especially if you aren't in any particular hurry.

 

[albirew]

I find that fortresses, castles, defensive walls, and other similar structures tend to have the wrong proportions. The battlements in particular tend to be too small.

well, it also depends on age and purpose tho.
just like roman and gothic churches, the older the sturdier...

 

[AnotherDuck]

Especially since most surviving examples have been extensively rebuilt and remodelled over the centuries, to deal with that little thing called "gunpowder".

Medieval castle walls generally weren't all that thick, and quite a lot of elements in them were made of wood. If they weren't entirely wood to begin with.
Nor were they all that high. They didn't need to be. That ditch right in front of them made life troublesome enough to deal with for any but the most determined unfriendlies.

Sure, gunpowder made walls on castles and forts thicker, but also lower. The thickness depended. Most castles were just lone, fortified buildings without courtyards, and they didn't have as thick walls as larger castles. It also depends on what you mean by walls, since that can both refer to the sides of a building, and the wall surrounding the courtyard and the keep. The latter would be thicker than the former.

The height was variable, but I think generally between two and three stories, but that includes the moat. There were naturally exceptions, though, in particular regarding castles on hills and mountainous terrain. What you see in fiction is sometimes ridiculously high, though.

Both height and thickness of walls naturally also depended a lot on the overall size of the fortified complex, and the wealth of the owner.

Yeah, most things that weren't walls were made out of wood. Roofs/ceilings, overhangs, walkways (unless they were walking on top of a wall), and other details were generally made out of wood. And in the early castles and proto-castles the walls were wooden as well.

There's a reason sieges were the norm...

Yeah, castles and other fortifications were very effective force multipliers. That's why they were built in the first place. But storming castles is much more dramatic, so that's what we see in fiction.

 

[SchultzD]

The artist didn't bother to draw the village girls' wet hair right (while they're in the downpour) and to erase floor masonry pattern from the flagpole finial and standing torches(?), so I wouldn't expect anything decent regarding this really specific field of artwork that is fortifications drawings.

 

[Shinigamisama]

This is...



TO BE CONTINUED.


Kapitan can't do ranged attacks with the logs? Easy, just become the log.

 

[PatotaSalad]

The drop in quality on this one is really a shame

 

[Umetsu]

@Xenris Can you, please, combine the double pages (27+28)? And, thanks, for the chapter! #GiveLoveToDoublePages

 

[_Levs]

You guys uploaded just as i finished reading Thank You for your work

Also.. Since when is this a Mystery manga what the heeel

 

[ExecutiveDirector]

Like, imagine Deku if he didn't get one for all for another 10 years but managed to become a mid-tier hero and a teacher at a hero school with martial arts and ingenuity alone. That's where he was.

Bad analogy. If Deku didn’t get powers he’d have NEVER been a hero of any sort. He’d be a powerless wannabe who would get curb stomped in a bootleg costume trying to play hero.

The author definitely set up our MC as a loser and has soft retconned that aspect of the character.

 

[kingthe13]

Bad analogy. If Deku didn’t get powers he’d have NEVER been a hero of any sort. He’d be a powerless wannabe who would get curb stomped in a bootleg costume trying to play hero.

The author definitely set up our MC as a loser and has soft retconned that aspect of the character.

quirkest right here thinking only someone with quirks can be a hero.

 

[ExecutiveDirector]

quirkest right here thinking only someone with quirks can be a hero.

Don’t assume what I think.

 

[JaxunHero]

And now I’m caught up…
honestly better as a binge reading Cuz things are given in succession whereas wait can hurt the story

 

[Cobaltzero]

Bad analogy. If Deku didn’t get powers he’d have NEVER been a hero of any sort. He’d be a powerless wannabe who would get curb stomped in a bootleg costume trying to play hero.

The author definitely set up our MC as a loser and has soft retconned that aspect of the character.

Eh, I'd disagree.
It's pretty obvious early on that MC has all the skills down pat (to the point the guild was taking active measures to recruit him should he retire from adventuring) but he lacks the fire power and stamina to be higher up on the food chain. He compensated by being extremely versatile (The blacksmith notes they don't get many full users where they live) and extremely knowledgeable.

MC is more one of those employees who quietly keeps the whole company up and running smoothly but never gets public accolades for it.

 

[ExecutiveDirector]

Eh, I'd disagree.

I don’t care.

 

[Bahsuo]

Zzz

 

[BakedBanana]

Other from the flashback part, this arc has been quite a disappointment. This is starting to feel like a generic isekai, what a shame.

 

[kingthe13]

I don’t care.

with how much your seething i think you do

 

[ExecutiveDirector]

with how much your seething i think you do

How do people like you infer such things? What do you gain trying to white knight yourself into the conversation? So weird.

 

[kingthe13]

How do people like you infer such things? What do you gain trying to white knight yourself into the conversation? So weird.

thats it let the hate flow through you

 

[tekkenshu7]

I see a wrong translation in page 23
'makiyuugoujutsu" was translated as 'demonic energy fusion'. The correct translation should've been 'magic+ki fusion technique'. It's the same jutsu Rentt uses in the earlier chapters to combine magic and ki energy into his sword and it's not supposed to be related to demonic ki or energy.